11469: Muslims demonstrating in support of their Palestinian brothers

The Muslim community here in southern Sweden has decided to hold a demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The demonstration will be peaceful, aimed at conveying the voice of the Muslims to the Swedish government, to put pressure on them to stop the massacres of the children of the Palestinian people. What is the ruling on such demonstrations? We would like to inform you that these demonstrations will play a great role and be very effective in conveying the views of the Muslims to the politicians, to put pressure on the Zionist government to put a stop to the massacres of the children in Palestine. Please advise us, may Allaah reward you with good.

Praise be to Allaah.

There
is nothing wrong with the Muslim community in Sweden protesting in order
to reduce the pressure on the Muslims in Palestine and to draw the attention
of the Swedish people and government to the crimes which the Jews are
committing against the Muslims in Palestine, and using all effective
and Islamically-acceptable means of doing so.

But
demonstrations may involve a number of things which are forbidden in
sharee’ah, so it is essential to guard against them. These include:

women going out wearing
adornment and make-up; using music in the demonstration; shouting slogans
that are incorrect, such as “al-Quds (Jerusalem) is Arab and will remain
Arab” (in fact, al-Quds is Islamic and is not for the Arabs only); stopping
the demonstration in front of a kaafir’s tomb and placing bouquets of
flowers on his grave; begging the kaafirs for help by using phrases
that are humiliating to the Muslims; holding up pictures or effigies
of people; doing wrong to others such as blocking the road or preventing
people from passing by; using slanderous and insulting words that are
not permitted in sharee’ah; men and women mixing during the demonstration;
imitating the kuffaar in any of their unique characteristics such as
clothing or symbols that the demonstrators may wear; committing acts
of aggression against the property of innocent people, such as destroying
their shops or breaking their windows, or starting fires in public facilities,
and other haraam actions. And Allaah knows best.